FORTY THINGS GOD PROVIDES EVERY BELIEVER AT THE MOMENT OF SALVATION (THE BENEFITS OF SALVATION)

Compiled by Lewis Sperry Chafer Revised by R. B. Thieme, Jr.

1. The believer resides in the eternal plan of God. (He shares the destiny of Christ) We are:

a. Foreknown: (Act_2:23; Rom_8:29; 1Pe_1:2)

b. Elected: (Rom_8:33; Col_3:12; 1Th_1:4; Tit_1:1)

c. Predestined: (Rom_8:29-30; Eph_1:5; Eph_1:11; 1Pe_1:2)

d. Chosen: (Mat_22:14; 1Pe_2:4)

e. Called: (1Th_5:24)

2. The believer is reconciled (Removal of the barrier between man and God)

a. By God: (2Co_5:18-19; Col_1:20)

b. To God: (Rom_5:10; 2Co_5:20; Eph_2:14-17)

3. The believer is redeemed (Purchased from the slave market of sin): (Rom_3:24; Col_1:14; 1Pe_1:18)

4. The believer’s condemnation, (Eternal judgment in the Lake of fire) is removed: (Joh_3:18; Joh_5:24; Rom_8:1)

5. All sins are judged by the substitutionary Spiritual death of Christ on the cross: (Rom_4:25; Eph_1:7; 1Pe_2:24)

6. Every believer receives propitiation for sins (God satisfied with the work of His Son): (Rom_3:25-26; 1Jn_2:2; 1Jn_4:10)

7. The believer is dead to the old life, (The old sin nature) but alive to God (Retroactive positional Truth)

a. He is Crucified with Christ: (Rom_6:6; Gal_2:20)

b. Dead with Christ: (Rom_6:8; Col_3:3; 1Pe_2:24)

c. Buried with Christ: (Rom_6:4; Col_2:12)

d. Raised with Christ: (Rom_6:4; Col_3:1)

8. The believer is free from the Mosaic Law. He is

a. Dead: (Rom_7:4)

b. Delivered: (Rom_6:14; Rom_7:6; 2Co_3:6-11; Gal_3:25)

9. The believer is regenerated: (Joh_13:10; 1Co_6:11; Tit_3:5)

a. He is born again: (Joh_3:7; 1Pe_1:23)

b. A child of God: (Gal_3:26)

c. A son of God: (Joh_1:12; 2Co_6:18; 1Jn_3:2)

d. A new creation: (2Co_5:17;Gal_6:15; Eph_2:10)

10. The believer is adopted by God (Placed as adult sons because of positional Truth): (Rom_8:15; Rom_8:23; (Future) Eph_1:5)

11. The believer is made acceptable to God: (Eph_1:6; 1Pe_2:5)

a. He is made righteous: (Imputation) (Rom_3:22; 1Co_1:30; 2Co_5:21; Php_3:9)

b. Sanctified positionally: (1Co_1:30; 1Co_6:11)

c. Perfected forever: (Heb_10:14)

d. Qualified for inheritance: (Col_1:12)

12. The believer is justified (Declared righteous): (Rom_3:24; Rom_5:1; Rom_5:9; Rom_8:30; 1Co_6:11; Tit_3:7)

13. The believer receives the unique availability of Divine power: (2Pe_1:3)

14. The believer is guaranteed a heavenly citizenship based on reconciliation: (Luk_10:20; Eph_2:13; Eph_2:19; Php_3:20)

15. The believer is delivered from the kingdom of Satan: (Col_1:13; Col_2:15)

16. The believer is transferred into God’s kingdom: (Col_1:13)

17. The believer is now on a secure foundation: (1Co_3:11; 1Co_10:4; Eph_2:20)

18. Every believer is a gift from God the Father to Christ: (Joh_10:29; Joh_17:2; Joh_17:6; Joh_17:9; Joh_17:11-12; Joh_17:24)

19. The believer is delivered from the power of the sin nature: (Rom_2:29; Php_3:3; Col_2:11)

20. Every believer is appointed a priest unto God. We are:

a. A holy priesthood: (1Pe_2:5)

b. A royal priesthood: (1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6)

21. The believer receives eternal security: (Rom_8:32; Rom_8:38-39; Gal_3:26; 2Ti_2:13)

22. The believer is given access to God: (Rom_5:2; Eph_2:18; Heb_4:14; Heb_4:16; Heb_10:19-20)

23. Every believer is within the “much more” grace care of God: (Rom_5:9-10)

a. We are: Objects of His love: Eph_2:4; Eph_5:2;

b. Objects of His grace (1) For salvation: Eph_2:8-9; (2) For keeping: (Rom_5:2; 1Pe_1:5) (3) For service: (Joh_17:18; Eph_4:7) (4) For instruction: (Tit_2:12)

c. Objects of His power: (Eph_1:19; Php_2:13)

d. Objects of His faithfulness: (Php_1:6; Heb_13:5)

e. Objects of His peace: (Joh_14:27)

f. Objects of His consolation: (2Th_2:16)

g. Objects of His intercession: (Rom_8:34; Heb_7:25; Heb_9:24)

24. The believer is beneficiary of an inheritance as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ: (Rom_8:17; Eph_1:14; Eph_1:18; Col_3:24; Heb_9:15; 1Pe_1:4)

25. Every believer has a new position in Christ: (Eph_2:6)

a. We are partners with Christ in life: (Col_3:4)

b. Partners with Christ in service: (1Co_1:9) (1) Workers together with God: (1Co_3:9; 2Co_6:1) (2) Ministers of the New Covenant: (2Co_3:6) (3) Ambassadors: (2Co_5:20) (4) Living epistles: (2Co_3:3) (5) Ministers of God: (2Co_6:4)

26. Believers are recipients of eternal life: (Joh_3:15; Joh_10:28; Joh_20:31; 1Jn_5:11-12)

27. The believer is created a new Spiritual species: (2Co_5:17)

28. The believer is a light in the Lord (Part of the angelic conflict): (Eph_5:8; 1Th_5:4)

29. The believer is united with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We are:

a. In God: (1Th_1:1; cf., “God in you,” Eph_4:6)

b. In Christ: (Joh_14:20; cf., “Christ in you,” Col_1:27) (1) A member in His Body: (1Co_12:13) (2) A branch in the Vine: (Joh_15:5) (3) A stone in the Building: (Eph_2:21-22; 1Pe_2:5) (4) A sheep in the Flock: (Joh_10:27-29) (5) A portion of His Bride: (Eph_5:25-27; Rev_19:6-8)

(6) A priest of the kingdom of priests: (1Pe_2:9) (7) A saint of the “new species:” (2Co_5:17) In the Holy Spirit: (Rom_8:9) “the Spirit in you.”

30. Every believer is the recipient of the ministries of the Holy Spirit. He is

a. Born of the Spirit: (Joh_3:36)

b. Baptized with the Spirit: (Act_1:5; 1Co_12:13)

c. Indwelt by the Spirit: (Joh_7:39; Rom_5:5; Rom_8:9; 1Co_3:16; 1Co_6:19; Gal_4:6; 1Jn_3:24)

d. Sealed by the Spirit: (2Co_1:22; Eph_4:30)

e. Given Spiritual gifts: (1Co_12:11; 1Co_12:27-31; 1Co_13:1-2)

31. The believer is glorified: (Rom_8:30)

32. The believer is complete in Christ: (Col_2:10)

33. The believer is possessor of every Spiritual blessing granted in eternity past: (Eph_1:3)

34. The believer receives a human spirit (The basis for Operation Z, along with the Holy Spirit): (Rom_8:16; 1Co_2:12; 2Co_7:13; 1Th_5:23)

35. The believer has scar tissue removed from the soul: (Isa_43:25; Isa_44:22)

36. The believer is the recipient of efficacious grace: (Eph_1:13)

37. The believer is guaranteed a resurrection body forever: (Joh_11:25)

38. The believer is the beneficiary of unlimited atonement: (2Co_5:14-15; 2Co_5:19; 1Ti_2:6; 1Ti_4:10; Tit_2:11; Heb_2:9; 2Pe_2:1; 1Jn_2:2)

39. The believer has equal privilege and equal opportunity under election and predestination.

40. The ten problem-solving devices are available to every believer. They are

a. Rebound: (1Jn_1:9)

b. Filling of the Holy Spirit: (Eph_5:18)

c. Faith-rest drill: (Heb_4:1; Heb_4:10-11)

d. Grace orientation: (Jas_4:6)

e. Doctrinal orientation: (Rom_12:2)

f. Personal sense of destiny: (Php_1:21)

g. Personal love for God: (Deu_6:5; 1Pe_1:8)

h. Impersonal love for all mankind: (Jas_2:8)

1. Sharing the happiness of God, +H: (Joh_15:11)

j. Occupation with Christ: (Eph_3:19)

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Go to: http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html

Download e-Sword application installation. Then hit setup, it will start the process, yes to everything it does, and it will ask you to restart your computer, after reboot, Then Go to: http://www.mustseethisone.com/ and download: Truth, The Great City, and Spirit; and put them in my documents in the e-Sword folder. After they are installed go back to http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html and download the English Standard Version Bible, or any one you want. You will see the e-Sword icon, double click: and see the next picture.

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The e-Sword system is ready; click topic notes, and then file open, after you read The Great City.Top, click Truth.top and then open, start at; A New Species, stay in order, the vocabulary builds in each book, like math we start with addition, before geometry. After you finish Truth.top, then read Spirit.top. Etc.

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This explains updating, update Truth.top last update was 03/28/08 and is finished. Now just update Spirit.top once month, click: Spirit download the zip file and extract; then save into my documents in the e-Sword folder, it will ask you to replace it? Yes, and you are all set!

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To change the size of the font of the pointer; in e-Sword go to options, and click tool tip font and change it! Most use 20, whatever works.

Word Web is a one-click free English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words from in almost any program. It works off-line. http://wordweb.info/free/

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Paul illustrates a principle that applies equally to all ages: Spiritual death rules in every generation of human history.

Nevertheless, the [Spiritual] death ruled from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type (A representation) of Him [Christ] who was destined to come [Christ’s First Advent] (Rom_5:14).

Actually we are born under two rulers who came to power when Adam sinned. Satan is the “god of this world,” ruling through a policy of moral and immoral degeneracy, this is “Satan’s thinking, of evil,” (2Co_11:13-15; 1Ti_4:1-3; 2Ti_3:5) the old sin nature is the sovereign of human life, ruling through Spiritual death and carnality. (Isa_29:13; Mar_10:18; Rom_10:2-3) Under both of these tyrannies we live, “moral and immoral degeneracy” and this is the order of the day. (Normal everyday human life) It is the policy of Satan; it is the func­tion of the sin nature!

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(This is an example of what this: (The Great City.top) will look like when you download this free system,
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The verses pop up when you lay the pointer on them, click words to see their meanings, amazing!)

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We have already been introduced to Satan. (In the book Satan and demonism) Since his powerful, multifaceted strategy has been detailed elsewhere, we need draw only a thumbnail sketch of his plan. His arrogant ambition is to become, by his own efforts and great intellect, like the most high God (Isa_14:12-14). He pro­motes the improvement of his kingdom, the world. He seeks to displace God and to create a counterfeit “one world order named in the Bible; Babylon,” this will happen before Christ returns at the Second Advent! (Isa_47:7-15; Rev_18:4-24) We are not surprised to discover in the Bible that a revolutionist such as Satan, whose world policy is both moral and immoral (Evil), talks out of both sides of his mouth. Satan is a brilliant chameleon, an ingenious counterfeiter, able to pre­sent himself as all things to all men. On one hand, he favors sweetness and light and prosperity for all—a chicken in every pot. Personally, he is the most beautiful creature ever created; he is eloquent, smart, entertaining, personable, persuasive—just the kind of company you would enjoy. His attacks often come in the guise of this calm, engaging, drawing-room type of attractiveness. (Neh_6:2) He knows that life depends on how people think, and he sponsors “good” anti-God thought

“You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ‘No one sees me,’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’ (Isa_47:10)

For he sees that even wise men die; The stupid and the senseless alike perish And leave their wealth to others. Their inner thought is that their houses are forever And their dwelling places to all generations; They have called their lands after their own names. (Psa_49:10-11)

For when he dies he will carry nothing away; His glory will not descend after him. Though while he lives he congratulates himself– And though men praise you when you do well for yourself– He shall go to the generation of his father’s; They will never see the light. Man in his pomp, yet without Understanding, (Truth) Is like the beasts that perish! (Psa_49:17-20)

“And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ‘And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”‘ (Luk_12:17-19)

Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.” (Isa_22:13)

Perhaps never before you have understood this point, God is interested in what we think. (Rom_2:15-16) But many categories of sin (Mental, verbal and overt) only set back Satan’s Utopian objectives. The system which Satan has constructed includes all the good which he can incorporate into it and be consis­tent with the thing he aims to accomplish. A serious ques­tion arises whether the presence of gross degeneracy in the world is due to Satan’s intention to have it so, or whether it in­dicates Satan’s inability to execute all he has designed. The probability is great that Satan’s ambition has led him to undertake more than any creature could ever ad­minister. (Job_2:1-10; Zec_3:1-7; Rev_3:9-10) Man is truly a free agent; human volition (Free will) and the old sin nature can prove to be just as unruly to Satan! (Dan_2:41)

But Satan does not appear always as an angel of light. The dark side of his strategy calls for terror, violence, confusion. (Neh_4:11) If he cannot control mankind by one tactic, he always has another. (Act_16:16-17) No depravity or treachery is beneath him. (Jdg_16:15; Jdg_16:21) The rules of the angelic conflict call for each man to exercise his self-determination on the earth until God removes him! (2Ti_2:4) But Satan never plays by the rules unless doing so happens to further his own ends. He is the original murderer, determined to destroy man’s volition if unable to control it. (Joh_8:44) periodically God judges the accumulated results of all his varied activities. (Gen_6:1-7; Gen_15:16; Lev_26:14-30) Satan’s antithetical methods of operation are employed not only by his human world leaders, (Luk_6:26; Rom_16:18; 2Pe_2:1-3; Jud_1:16) but also by his vast, highly organized, well-led army of angelic subordinates, known as demons. (Eph_6:10-12) Satan does not lead a mob. He understands authority; in fact, he is a tyrant who wants to superimpose his authority over God’s.

Satan orders some of his demons operating on the earth to be eloquent and magnetic in order to deceive people of culture and enlightenment. (Col_2:8) Many smart Germans who were not impressed—who were even repelled—by the emotionalism of Hitler’s National Socialist Party were nonetheless drawn in by his demonic charisma. Other demon organizations are charged with confusing and enslaving the simple, the emotional, and the ignorant. (Act_14:11-13) Such people are impressed by the weird, extranatural phenomena of telepathy, mind-reading, and disem­bodied spirits associated with certain Hindu sects; by the voodoo victim’s ritual sacrifice of himself without any symptoms of pain; by the Sudanese dervishes who with bullets in their heads and hearts continued to charge the British formations; by the human sacrifice of children in the phallic cult; by the ecstatic manipulation of the vocal cords among the modern day holy rollers. Demons can unlawfully isolate the dormant faculties of unbelievers, and believers in carnality, who permit the mentality to lapse into disuse and who are therefore ruled by the old sin nature. (Joh_8:37-38; Joh_8:44; Act_19:26-28; 1Jn_3:10) We are all born into Satan’s world system.

And you were (Spiritually) dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course (Thinking) of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit (Satan’s false spirit) that is now working in the sons of disobedience. (Unbelievers and carnal believers) Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. (Eph_2:1-3)

In order to get out; as unbelievers we start by faith in Christ. (Joh_3:18)

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Eph_2:8-9)

All believers in carnality are under demon influence, and or demon obsession in which the demon controls the soul. We are born again, but still think according to the false spirit and the old sin nature we were born with. In order for us to change into the new self God wants us to be, (Eph_4:24) we must be transformed!

And do not be (A command) conformed to this worlds, (Way of thinking; moral and immoral degeneracy) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom_12:2)

Satan has ruled the world since the Fall of man, but he has never yet succeeded in controlling his own domain. Whether through the drawing-room type of demon activity or through the more startling types, Satan’s ultimate objective is to conquer, to control. Believers are at a great advantage if they understand the strategy and tactics of the enemy. (2Co_2:11) Unfortunately, many Christians seem to gravitate to the strange, to the weird. Any mention of the devil and demon activity risks bringing such impressionable people out of their cracks and holes. It is not wise to delve into the realm of demonism; Truth warns us not to get in­volved (Lev_19:31; Lev_20:6; Deu_18:10-12). We should be curious about Truth, not about demons.

 The point here is that we are born enslaved to a system of satanic moral and immoral degeneracy, more brilliant, complex, and powerful than we can possibly resist in our own energy! Our one defense is the Spiritual life in fellowship with God, (1Jn_1:9) and with the Mind of Christ, Truth resident in our souls; this is God’s power, (1Co_2:12-16) we learn God’s system, (Joh_4:23-24) and this is the solution! We submit to God’s will, Thoughts and desires or to our own. (Joh_12:24-26)

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are a mere breath. (Psa_94:11)

“For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no Understanding. (Truth) They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.” (Jer_4:22)

Our confidence lies in knowing that Jesus Christ controls history. (Rev_1:5) Satan does not control the kingdom he rules; he cannot produce perfect environment; never will he be like God. Satan and his demons are doomed to ultimate failure. The plan of God, executed by perfect Divine justice, will inevitably prevail. The great demon conflict that has so ravaged human history will be won by the Lord Jesus Christ at the Second Advent! (Rev_20:2-3) We might as well get on the winning side! Either we adjust to the justice of God, or the justice of God will adjust to us—by rolling right over us!

Not even the greatest intellect of the greatest creature, Satan, can compete with the integrity of the Creator. If we try it, we haven’t a chance. While the sin nature’s trend toward sin does not always fit in with the main thrust of Satan’s scheme, its trends toward morality and immorality are readily pressed into the devil’s service. While still in the Garden after the Fall, Adam’s slavery to his newly acquired sin nature was first manifested, not in an act of sin, but in a program of satanic morality—Operation Fig Leaves. The nakedness that had been a wonderful part of Adam’s relationship with his wife was suddenly denounced by Satan as being a social problem. (Gen_3:11) The new ruler of the world insinuated that nakedness between husband and wife was wrong, that clothing was “good,” that no one was going to run around naked in his kingdom! Adam’s trend picked up the innuendo right away, and he and the woman got busy making “loin coverings” out of fig leaves. (Gen_3:7) Behind their social action, their “betterment” of mankind, their work to make everyone equal, is the thinking of Satan! They were vainly attempting to improve the devil’s world, and, once clothed, they had more “moral thoughts.” “If we are right with each other, we must be right with God.” If only we adjust to our fellow man and do well by one another, certainly God will not condemn us.” This satanic lie still carries a deadly venom. It has poisoned Christianity in our day and is on the verge of destroying our nation.

It represents a thorough maladjustment to the justice of God. Man’s good deeds cannot come close to earning the approbation of God; (Psa_39:5; Isa_64:6) to assume that they do is to insult His infinitely perfect character. (Rev_4:8) Even toward man, we are required by the laws of Divine establishment to respect each other’s freedom, privacy, and property, but not to remold society, to lift up the downtrodden, to make people equal, or to enforce the ideas of a satanic socialist. The many applications and examples of the “social gospel” being broadcast into the world today are merely repeated evidence of our slavery under Satan’s evil system.

By following human moral degeneracy as national policy, both foreign and domestic, the United States is setting herself up for overt slavery to another form of evil, a more predatory form known as communism. And even communism has a “good” goal—a “new vast world order” of universal prosperity! This was the same goal in Nimrod’s Babel, as well as in Babylon, Tyre, the United Nations, and Hitler’s Berlin, and in our modern day, a one world system named Babylon, (Rev_17:18; Rev_18:10) it represents the best that Satan and man can do apart from God, and the Bible gives many descriptions of what this system has looked like in the past, (Eze_27:1-36) and in the future. (Rev_18:11-24) And the judgment of the “city” (Eze_27:33-36) and its ruler, (Eze_28:1-10) as well as the judgment of Satan. (Eze_28:11-19) And what will happen to them in the future, the city, (Rev_19:3) the ruler (Rev_17:12; Rev_17:16-18 ; Rev_19:20) and Satan. (Rev_20:1-3; Rev_20:10) In this “one world order” there is a description of what evil thinking is, and what the rulers and citizens will be thinking evil about. This is just an example of what the Great City of the “one world order” might look like;

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Do not love the world (A command) nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. (1Jn_2:15-17)

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, (Or “the world project”) and forfeit his soul? (Mar_8:36)

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And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, [Babel] and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Gen_11:4)
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The distinguishing mark in Tyre was a sail. (Eze_27:7) So it is with this city, so if this is not the city, it looks just like it! And this is due to the grace, and kindness of God to make Truth, and what is false so clear for us! (Joh_7:17)

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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Gen_6:5)

The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. (Gen_8:21)

“And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. “It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. (Luk_17:26-30)

These are human moral thoughts, and activities and this is man putting his thoughts, will, and desires before God’s. Unbelievers are moral, nice, giving, serve their country, take care of their family, Etc. But they are going to the Lake of fire, for not believing in Jesus Christ the Lord. (Joh_3:18) This passage is directed to believers. (Luk_17:32-33) Anything an unbeliever can do is not the Christian way life! (Mat_22:32; Luk_14:16-35)

Even in Satan’s kingdom, (Prison) the volition of our souls is truly free to make one choice over another, but we are not free from the influence of the old sin nature resident in our bodies. (Isa_25:7; Isa_42:7; Mat_4:16; Luk_1:77-79) This second slavery is much more intimate and hence much more dangerous than even our slavery as citizens of Satan’s do­main. Although Satan is brilliant and powerful as the archenemy of both God and man, he is still only a creature. He can be in only one place at a time, and he does not have time to waste on us personally, his demons are used. (Eph_6:12) In contrast, the old sin nature resides in every cell in your body, including every cell in your brain. More often than not, therefore, you are your own worst enemy.

When you run into pressure or difficulty in life, it is not the devil after you; he does not need to intervene when you do such a nice job all by yourself. Remember that your brain is not the same as your soul. While the soul is immaterial, the brain is part of your body, and as such, it is corrupted by the old sin nature. In other words, the sin nature resides in the brain but not in the soul. The brain, however, influences the soul. Indeed, under Spiritual death, and carnality the brain rules the soul since the old sin nature has its headquarters in the physical body and controls the brain as part of the body of corruption. The brain is the mechanical expression of the soul’s consciousness. Note that I said mechanical; there is no consciousness in the brain as a physical organ. Self-consciousness is a facet of the soul. The self-consciousness of the soul acts as the go-between; it is where the immaterial links up to the material. But having resided in every neuron since the moment of physical birth, the sin nature uses all the brain’s mechanical functions to control the soul. In particular, the old sin nature programs the brain for human reality; thus, the brain naturally prints moral and immoral tendencies into the soul. (Mat_16:22-23) Gar­bage in, garbage out. The mentality operates on human reality; the volition makes decisions the emotion is stimulated by the old sin nature. In contrast to the “newness of life” commanded of every believer, (Rom_6:4) the “oldness” of life is the computer program of moral and immoral “human reality” which enslaves us to the old sin nature. Satan’s plan also has a part in this programming. From birth, we live in the devil’s world, and his ruling policy inevitably works its way into the computer. In spite of Christ’s work in freeing us from the power of the old sin nature, many believers continue to operate on the old program. They are full of human morality as they serve their sin natures and sincerely advocate the various programs for making Satan’s kingdom “a better place to live.” They talk about equality, brotherhood, health and prosperity, education, removing poverty, abortion, world peace and using the Bible as a “moral system,” (2Ti_3:5) without the filling of the Spirit. (Rom_8:4) Although determined to “do great things for God,” they fall right into line behind Satan, the greatest genius and deceiver of the whole world. (Rev_12:9) The motto of this “new world system” of unbelievers, believers, moral, immoral, religious, and non religious is: Treat others as you would have them treat you! WITHOUT THE SPIRITUAL LIFE!

“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (Joh_4:23-24)

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (Joh_6:63)

Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, (Spirit and Truth) for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh (Carnality) cannot please God. (Rom_8:7-8)

As the only solution to this tyrannical dilemma, we are commanded to reprogram the computer.

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, (The sin nature) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (The Spiritual life) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, And do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; (Staying out of the Spiritual life) but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, (Alive from Spiritual death and or carnality) and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Rom_6:11-13)

Placing the members of your physical body under orders to God in­cludes reprogramming your brain. At the new birth, the power of your old sin nature was positionally broken through the imputation of God’s righteousness and eternal life. (Eph_2:6) Add to this the simultaneous baptism of the Holy Spirit, and for the first time your soul is in a position to break free from the influence of the corrupted physical computer.

By the intake of Bible Truth, new infor­mation is fed into your Spiritual life, so that it is programmed in accordance with the plan of God for your life. Only Truth in the soul can fulfill experientially, (Rom_6:17-18) what was accomplished positionally at the moment of salvation. Through perception of Truth, we can be free from both rulers, under which we were born!

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (Joh_8:31-32)

Truth makes all the difference! Works will not reprogram the old sin nature. Witnessing, quoting verses, memorizing scripture, prayer, giving to the church—in carnality, will not do the job. They are legitimate; indeed they are commanded—under the filling of the Spirit (Eph_5:18) with the proper motiva­tion, at the right time. But they do not change the old sin nature. There is only one way to change the computer (Our mind) so that it becomes a weapon of righteousness to God, and that is by feeding it something greater and smarter than Satan’s, and the sin nature’s thinking! We must consistently feed it the Thinking of Christ, in the Filling of the Spirit—The Living Word! (Joh_3:34)

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FORTY THINGS GOD PROVIDES EVERY BELIEVER AT THE MOMENT OF SALVATION (THE BENEFITS OF SALVATION)

Compiled by Lewis Sperry Chafer Revised by R. B. Thieme, Jr.

1. The believer resides in the eternal plan of God (shares the destiny of Christ). He is

a. Foreknown: Acts 2:23Click to view Acts 2:23 (NASB); Rom. 8:29Click to view Rom. 8:29 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:2Click to view 1 Pet. 1:2 (NASB);

b. Elected: Rom. 8:33Click to view Rom. 8:33 (NASB); Col. 3:12Click to view Col. 3:12 (NASB); 1 Thess. 1:4Click to view 1 Thess. 1:4 (NASB); Titus 1:1Click to view Titus 1:1 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:2Click to view 1 Pet. 1:2 (NASB);

c. Predestined: Rom. 8:29-30Click to view Rom. 8:29-30 (NASB); Eph. 1:5Click to view Eph. 1:5 (NASB), II;

d. Chosen: Matt. 22:14Click to view Matt. 22:14 (NASB); 1 Pet. 2:4Click to view 1 Pet. 2:4 (NASB);

e. Called: 1 Thess. 5:24Click to view 1 Thess. 5:24 (NASB).

2. The believer is reconciled (removal of the barrier between man and God)

a. By God: 2 Cor. 5:18-19Click to view 2 Cor. 5:18-19 (NASB); Col. 1:20Click to view Col. 1:20 (NASB);

b. To God: Rom. 5:10Click to view Rom. 5:10 (NASB); 2 Cor. 5:20Click to view 2 Cor. 5:20 (NASB); Eph. 2:14-17Click to view Eph. 2:14-17 (NASB).

3. The believer is redeemed (purchased from the slave market of sin): Rom. 3:24Click to view Rom. 3:24 (NASB); Col. 1:14Click to view Col. 1:14 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:18Click to view 1 Pet. 1:18 (NASB).

4. The believer’s condemnation (eternal judgment) is removed: John 3:18Click to view John 3:18 (NASB); 5:24Click to view John 5:24 (NASB); Rom. 8:1Click to view Rom. 8:1 (NASB).

5. All sins are judged by the substitutionary spiritual death of Christ on the cross: Rom. 4:25Click to view Rom. 4:25 (NASB); Eph. 1:7Click to view Eph. 1:7 (NASB); 1 Pet. 2:24Click to view 1 Pet. 2:24 (NASB).

6. Every believer receives propitiation for sins (God satisfied with the work of His Son): Rom. 3:25-26Click to view Rom. 3:25-26 (NASB); 1 John 2:2Click to view 1 John 2:2 (NASB); 4:10Click to view 1 John 4:10 (NASB).

7. The believer is dead to old life (old sin nature), but alive to God (retroactive positional truth). He is

a. Crucified with Christ: Rom. 6:6Click to view Rom. 6:6 (NASB); Gal. 2:20Click to view Gal. 2:20 (NASB);

b. Dead with Christ: Rom. 6:8Click to view Rom. 6:8 (NASB); Col. 3:3Click to view Col. 3:3 (NASB); 1 Pet. 2:24Click to view 1 Pet. 2:24 (NASB);

c. Buried with Christ: Rom. 6:4Click to view Rom. 6:4 (NASB); Col. 2:12Click to view Col. 2:12 (NASB);

d. Raised with Christ: Rom. 6:4Click to view Rom. 6:4 (NASB); Col. 3:1Click to view Col. 3:1 (NASB).

8. The believer is free from the Mosaic Law. He is

a. Dead: Rom. 7:4Click to view Rom. 7:4 (NASB);

b. Delivered: Rom. 6:14Click to view Rom. 6:14 (NASB); 7:6Click to view Rom. 7:6 (NASB); 2 COT. 3:11; Gal. 3:25Click to view Gal. 3:25 (NASB).

9. The believer is regenerated: John 13:10Click to view John 13:10 (NASB); 1 Cor. 6:11Click to view 1 Cor. 6:11 (NASB); Titus 3:5Click to view Titus 3:5 (NASB). He is

a. Born again: John 3:7Click to view John 3:7 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:23Click to view 1 Pet. 1:23 (NASB);

b. A child of God: Gal. 3:26Click to view Gal. 3:26 (NASB);

c. A son of God: John 1:12Click to view John 1:12 (NASB); 2 Cor. 6:18Click to view 2 Cor. 6:18 (NASB); 1 John 3:2Click to view 1 John 3:2 (NASB);

d. A new creation: 2 Cor. 5:17Click to view 2 Cor. 5:17 (NASB); Gal. 6:15Click to view Gal. 6:15 (NASB); Eph. 2:10Click to view Eph. 2:10 (NASB).

10. The believer is adopted by God (placed as adult sons because of positional truth): Rom. 8:15Click to view Rom. 8:15 (NASB); 8:23Click to view Rom. 8:23 (NASB) (future); Eph. 1:5Click to view Eph. 1:5 (NASB).

11. The believer is made acceptable to God: Eph. 1:6Click to view Eph. 1:6 (NASB); 1 Pet. 2:5Click to view 1 Pet. 2:5 (NASB). He is

a. Made righteous (imputation): Rom. 3:22Click to view Rom. 3:22 (NASB); 1 Cor. 1:30Click to view 1 Cor. 1:30 (NASB); 2 Cor. 5:21Click to view 2 Cor. 5:21 (NASB); Phil. 3:9Click to view Phil. 3:9 (NASB);

b. Sanctified positionally: 1 Cor. 1:30Click to view 1 Cor. 1:30 (NASB); 6:11Click to view 1 Cor. 6:11 (NASB);

c. Perfected forever: Heb. 10:14Click to view Heb. 10:14 (NASB);

d. Qualified for inheritance: Col. 1:12Click to view Col. 1:12 (NASB).

12. The believer is justified (declared righteous): Rom. 3:24Click to view Rom. 3:24 (NASB); 5:1, 9Click to view Rom. 5:1, 9 (NASB); 8:30Click to view Rom. 8:30 (NASB); 1 Cor. 6:11Click to view 1 Cor. 6:11 (NASB); Titus 3:7Click to view Titus 3:7 (NASB).

13. The believer receives the unique availability of divine power: 2 Pet. 1:3Click to view 2 Pet. 1:3 (NASB).

14. The believer is guaranteed a heavenly citizenship based on reconciliation: Luke 10:20Click to view Luke 10:20 (NASB); Eph. 2:13, 19Click to view Eph. 2:13, 19 (NASB); Phil. 3:20Click to view Phil. 3:20 (NASB).

15. The believer is delivered from the kingdom of Satan: Col. 1:13Click to view Col. 1:13 (NASB)a; 2:15Click to view Col. 2:15 (NASB).

16. The believer is transferred into God’s kingdom: Col. 1:13Click to view Col. 1:13 (NASB)b.

17. The believer is now on a secure foundation: 1 Cor. 3:11Click to view 1 Cor. 3:11 (NASB); 10:4Click to view 1 Cor. 10:4 (NASB); Eph. 2:20Click to view Eph. 2:20 (NASB).

18. Every believer is a gift from God the Father to Christ: John 10:29Click to view John 10:29 (NASB); 17:2, 6, 9, 11-12, 24Click to view John 17:2, 6, 9, 11-12, 24 (NASB).

19. The believer is delivered from the power of the sin nature: Rom. 2:29Click to view Rom. 2:29 (NASB); Phil. 3:3Click to view Phil. 3:3 (NASB), Col. 2:11Click to view Col. 2:11 (NASB).

20. Every believer is appointed a priest unto God. We are

a. A holy priesthood: 1 Pet. 2:5Click to view 1 Pet. 2:5 (NASB);

b. A royal priesthood: 1 Pet. 2:9Click to view 1 Pet. 2:9 (NASB); Rev. 1:6Click to view Rev. 1:6 (NASB).

21. The believer receives eternal security: Rom. 8:32, 38-39Click to view Rom. 8:32, 38-39 (NASB); Gal. 3:26Click to view Gal. 3:26 (NASB); 2 Tim. 2:13Click to view 2 Tim. 2:13 (NASB).

22. The believer is given access to God: Rom. 5:2Click to view Rom. 5:2 (NASB); Eph. 2:18Click to view Eph. 2:18 (NASB); Heb. 4:14,16Click to view Heb. 4:14,16 (NASB); 10:19-20Click to view Heb. 10:19-20 (NASB).

23. Every believer is within the “much more” grace care of God: Rom. 5:9-10Click to view Rom. 5:9-10 (NASB). We are

a. Objects of His love: Eph. 2:4Click to view Eph. 2:4 (NASB); 5:2Click to view Eph. 5:2 (NASB);

b. Objects of His grace (1) For salvation: Eph. 2:8-9Click to view Eph. 2:8-9 (NASB); (2) For keeping: Rom. 5:2Click to view Rom. 5:2 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:5Click to view 1 Pet. 1:5 (NASB); (3) For service: John 17:18Click to view John 17:18 (NASB); Eph. 4:7Click to view Eph. 4:7 (NASB); (4) For instruction: Titus 2:12Click to view Titus 2:12 (NASB);

c. Objects of His power: Eph. 1:19Click to view Eph. 1:19 (NASB); Phil. 2:13Click to view Phil. 2:13 (NASB);

d. Objects of His faithfulness: Phil. 1:6Click to view Phil. 1:6 (NASB); Heb. 13:5Click to view Heb. 13:5 (NASB)b

e. Objects of His peace: John 14:27Click to view John 14:27 (NASB);

f. Objects of His consolation: 2 Thess. 2:16Click to view 2 Thess. 2:16 (NASB);

g. Objects of His intercession: Rom. 8:34Click to view Rom. 8:34 (NASB); Heb. 7:25Click to view Heb. 7:25 (NASB); 9:24Click to view Heb. 9:24 (NASB).

24. The believer is beneficiary of an inheritance as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ: Rom. 8:17Click to view Rom. 8:17 (NASB); Eph. 1:14, 18Click to view Eph. 1:14, 18 (NASB); Col. 3:24Click to view Col. 3:24 (NASB); Heb. 9:15Click to view Heb. 9:15 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:4Click to view 1 Pet. 1:4 (NASB).

25. Every believer has a new position in Christ: Eph. 2:6Click to view Eph. 2:6 (NASB). We are

a. Partners with Christ in life: Col. 3:4Click to view Col. 3:4 (NASB);

b. Partners with Christ in service: 1 Cor. 1:9Click to view 1 Cor. 1:9 (NASB) (1) Workers together with God: 1 Cor. 3:9Click to view 1 Cor. 3:9 (NASB); 2 Cor. 6:1Click to view 2 Cor. 6:1 (NASB); (2) Ministers of the New Covenant: 2 Cor. 3:6Click to view 2 Cor. 3:6 (NASB); (3) Ambassadors: 2 Cor. 5:20Click to view 2 Cor. 5:20 (NASB); (4) Living epistles: 2 Cor. 3:3Click to view 2 Cor. 3:3 (NASB); (5) Ministers of God: 2 Cor. 6:4Click to view 2 Cor. 6:4 (NASB).

26. Believers are recipients of eternal life: John 3:15Click to view John 3:15 (NASB); 10:28Click to view John 10:28 (NASB); 20:31Click to view John 20:31 (NASB); 1 John 5:11-12Click to view 1 John 5:11-12 (NASB).

27. The believer is created a new spiritual species: 2 Cor. 5:17Click to view 2 Cor. 5:17 (NASB).

28. The believer is a light in the Lord (part of the angelic conflict): Eph. 5:8Click to view Eph. 5:8 (NASB); 1 Thess. 5:4Click to view 1 Thess. 5:4 (NASB).

29. The believer is united with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We are

a. In God: 1 Thess. 1:1Click to view 1 Thess. 1:1 (NASB); cf., “God in you,” Eph. 4:6Click to view Eph. 4:6 (NASB);

b. In Christ: John 14:20Click to view John 14:20 (NASB); cf., “Christ in you,” Col. 1:27Click to view Col. 1:27 (NASB) (1) A member in His Body: 1 Cor. 12:13Click to view 1 Cor. 12:13 (NASB); (2) A branch in the Vine: John 15:5Click to view John 15:5 (NASB); (3) A stone in the Building: Eph. 2:21-22Click to view Eph. 2:21-22 (NASB); 1 Pet. 2:5Click to view 1 Pet. 2:5 (NASB); (4) A sheep in the Flock: John 10:27-29Click to view John 10:27-29 (NASB); (5) A portion of His Bride: Eph. 5:25-27Click to view Eph. 5:25-27 (NASB); Rev. 19:6-8, 21:9Click to view Rev. 19:6-8, 21:9 (NASB):

(6) A priest of the kingdom of priests: 1 Pet. 2:9Click to view 1 Pet. 2:9 (NASB); (7) A saint of the “new species:” 2 Cor. 5:17Click to view 2 Cor. 5:17 (NASB); c. In the Holy Spirit: Rom. 8:9Click to view Rom. 8:9 (NASB); “the Spirit in you.”

30. Every believer is the recipient of the ministries of the Holy Spirit. He is

a. Born of the Spirit: John 3:36Click to view John 3:36 (NASB);

b. Baptized with the Spirit: Acts 1:5Click to view Acts 1:5 (NASB); 1 Cor. 12:13Click to view 1 Cor. 12:13 (NASB);

c. Indwelt by the Spirit: John 7:39Click to view John 7:39 (NASB); Rom. 5:5Click to view Rom. 5:5 (NASB); 8:9Click to view Rom. 8:9 (NASB); 1 Cor. 3:16Click to view 1 Cor. 3:16 (NASB); 6:19Click to view 1 Cor. 6:19 (NASB); Gal. 4:6Click to view Gal. 4:6 (NASB); 1 John 3:24Click to view 1 John 3:24 (NASB);

d. Sealed by the Spirit: 2 Cor. 1:22Click to view 2 Cor. 1:22 (NASB); Eph. 4:30Click to view Eph. 4:30 (NASB);

e. Given spiritual gifts: 1 Cor. 12:11, 27-31Click to view 1 Cor. 12:11, 27-31 (NASB); 13:1-2Click to view 1 Cor. 13:1-2 (NASB).

31. The believer is glorified: Rom. 8:30Click to view Rom. 8:30 (NASB).

32. The believer is complete in Christ: Col. 2:10Click to view Col. 2:10 (NASB).

33. The believer is possessor of every spiritual blessing granted in eternity past: Eph. 1:3Click to view Eph. 1:3 (NASB).

34. The believer receives a human spirit (the basis of the grace apparatus for perception, along with the Holy Spirit): Rom. 8:16Click to view Rom. 8:16 (NASB); 1 Cor. 2:12Click to view 1 Cor. 2:12 (NASB); 2 Cor. 7:13Click to view 2 Cor. 7:13 (NASB); 1 Thess. 5:23Click to view 1 Thess. 5:23 (NASB).

35. The believer has all scar tissue removed from the soul: Isa. 43:25Click to view Isa. 43:25 (NASB); 44:22Click to view Isa. 44:22 (NASB).

36. The believer is the recipient of efficacious grace: Eph. 1:13Click to view Eph. 1:13 (NASB).

37. The believer is guaranteed a resurrection body forever: John 11:25Click to view John 11:25 (NASB).

38. The believer is the beneficiary of unlimited atonement: 2 Cor. 5:14-15, 19Click to view 2 Cor. 5:14-15, 19 (NASB); 1 Tim. 2:6Click to view 1 Tim. 2:6 (NASB); 4:10Click to view 1 Tim. 4:10 (NASB); Titus 2:11Click to view Titus 2:11 (NASB); Heb. 2:9Click to view Heb. 2:9 (NASB); 2 Pet. 2:1Click to view 2 Pet. 2:1 (NASB); 1 John 2:2Click to view 1 John 2:2 (NASB).

39. The believer has equal privilege and equal opportunity under election and predestination.

40. Problem-solving devices are available to every believer. They are

a. Rebound: 1 John 1:9Click to view 1 John 1:9 (NASB);

b. Filling of the Holy Spirit: Eph. 5:18Click to view Eph. 5:18 (NASB);

c. Faith-rest drill: Heb. 4:1, 10-11Click to view Heb. 4:1, 10-11 (NASB);

d. Grace orientation: James 4:6Click to view James 4:6 (NASB);

e. Doctrinal orientation: Rom. 12:2Click to view Rom. 12:2 (NASB);

f. Personal sense of destiny: Phil. 1:21Click to view Phil. 1:21 (NASB);

g. Personal love for God: Deut. 6:5Click to view Deut. 6:5 (NASB); 1 Pet. 1:8Click to view 1 Pet. 1:8 (NASB);

h. Impersonal love for all mankind: James 2:8Click to view James 2:8 (NASB);

1. Sharing the happiness of God, +H: John 15:11Click to view John 15:11 (NASB);

j. Occupation with Christ: Eph. 3:19Click to view Eph. 3:19 (NASB).

OPERATION Z

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God has supplied us with everything for learning His Word: The completed canon of Scripture, a pastor-teacher, books, the MP3 player, the DVD player and now the computer, the filling of the Holy Spirit, rebound, (1Jn_1:9) the human soul, the human spirit, physical life, Spiritual life and protection in the devil’s world. (Isa_41:13) These grace provisions are part of the grace apparatus for perception, which is “Operation Z” To summarize, the believer filled with the Holy Spirit, (1Co_4:20) concentrates on the pastor’s message, resulting in gnosis, “Knowledge,” in the mentality of the soul. The mentality has two parts: the human spirit or right lobe, God’s Knowledge. and the kardia, “heart.” or left lobe, human knowledge. (Jer_17:9) And is the home of gnosis; the right lobe is the repository of epignosis, “Full Knowledge.” (Eph_3:19) Gnosis in the left lobe is receptive comprehension: “academic knowledge” which is not usable for application in the Spiritual life. A believer may be able to quote many verses or talk at length about many Biblical subjects, but if his knowledge is only gnosis, it is not edifying. Academic arrogance can exist in theology as easily as in any other field of learning (1Co_1:19-21; 1Co_2:14; 1Co_3:19-20; 1Co_8:1). If Truth is not believed, or not understood or not used, it is removed! (Mat_13:19-23; Luk_8:11-15) The application of gnosis doctrine is misapplication, and the Word misapplied generates legalism, inflexibility, insensitivity, and intolerance, pride and arrogance. (Heb_3:12; Heb_4:2) The believer clearly perceives a point of doctrine and now faces the issue of faith: does he, or does he not believe what he has learned? (Pro_3:5-6; Mat_7:7-11) If he believes: that Truth is transferred to the right lobe and becomes Spiritual Thoughts and Spiritual Words! (1Co_2:13) By means of faith, it becomes genuine understanding of Divine Truth. (1Co_4:20) Only God’s Thinking can be applied as Spiritual Wisdom and Spiritual common sense. (2Co_10:5) Epignosis is also the building material for the edifica­tion complex, (The Temple) of the soul. (1Co_3:10-14) The process of transferring the Truth from the heart to the spirit is faith-perception. Truth always has the merit; we who believe do not!

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (Salvation) Now if any man builds on the foundation (Growth to maturity) with gold, silver, precious stones, (God’s Thoughts) wood, hay, straw, (Satanic and human thoughts) each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, (Mar_9:49) and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. (1Co_3:10-14)

REBOUND, RECEPTION, RETENTION, RECALL, RESIST SIN, REPEAT!

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